4. Sing to God, sing praises to His name, cast up a highway for Him Who rides through the deserts–His name is the Lord–be in high spirits and glory before Him!
5. A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation.
6. God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
7. O God, when You went forth before Your people, when You marched through the wilderness–Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!–
8. The earth trembled, the heavens also poured down [rain] at the presence of God; yonder Sinai quaked at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
9. You, O God, did send a plentiful rain; You did restore and confirm Your heritage when it languished and was weary.
10. Your flock found a dwelling place in it; You, O God, in Your goodness did provide for the poor and needy.
11. The Lord gives the word [of power]; the women who bear and publish [the news] are a great host.
12. The kings of the enemies' armies, they flee, they flee! She who tarries at home divides the spoil [left behind].
13. Though you [the slackers] may lie among the sheepfolds [in slothful ease, yet for Israel] the wings of a dove are covered with silver, its pinions excessively green with gold [are trophies taken from the enemy].
14. When the Almighty scattered kings in [the land], it was as when it snows on Zalmon [a wooded hill near Shechem].
15. Is Mount Bashan the high mountain of summits, Mount Bashan [east of the Jordan] the mount of God?